3 Decades of Income Gains

Claims of long-term middle America stagnation are often part of a broader argument about the adverse impact of globalization, outsourcing, and free trade. And middle class stagnation is used as motivation for a specific set of policies. But if middle America has not stagnated then the motivation for those policies is without merit.

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